Today we have some exclusive images for you, red hot from the Discount Theatre dark room.

They show a brave little blonde schoolboy going head to head with the new star of Walking with Dinosaurs Live…a 150 ft T-Rex!

This massive mechanical beast runs around like 65 million years never happened and looks set to take London by storm with a series of shows at Wembley and The 02 in August. It would be really bad if he escaped to reek havoc across the capital, scaling Big Ben with little Blondie in an emotional last stand. I’m told the producers have learned a lot from the King Kong fiasco and are taking the correct precautions.

It’s not fair…all we had in my day was a torn-up Dino picture book to share among 35 tiny classmates; I can still remember the musty odor pulsating from its pages which made learning such a chore. But nowadays these little tikes have full blown interaction with the past, we have almost invented time travel for them…and what kind of thanks do we get? I’ve had my phone on all day and not one of these “Children” has called to say thanks for the HYPER LEARNING!!!! What a Liberty…

See Walking with Dinosaurs Live at The 02

See Walking with Dinosaurs Live at Wembley

I was excited to look out of the big bay windows at Discount Theatre towers this morning only to find a colorful vision staring straight back at me.

Grass I tells Ya…Grass!

It seems that Boris Johnson and his lovely cronies have seen fit to bestow a present of the green stuff for us all to enjoy over the summer. I can’t wait to get out there on relaxing afternoons and let my fair ginger skin go pink and pitted.

We did have a smattering of mud based straw before, but this latest crop is fresh and new and delicious.

So before taking your seats at some fantastic West End matinee this sunny season why not come and drink some of our Ice Cold Orange Cordial on nature’s newest fury carpet!?! (Is it weird to get so excited about turf?)

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Looks like the “Last Chance” warnings were a little premature.

Cameron Mackintosh has announced that Avenue Q, the endearing look at life in New York using both puppets and humans to illustrate how life sucks will now transfer to the Gielgud Theatre.

The current run at the Noel Coward Theatre will finish on the 28th March to make way for the highly anticipated stage version of the film Calendar Girls. After a 2 month hiatus, allowing some well deserved down time for the puppets, or perhaps a chance for some internet surfing of the naughty sort, the entire cast will traipse a few blocks North to Shaftesbury Avenue.

Originally opening in the West End in June 2006, Avenue Q has found its place as one of the funniest and crudest of all musicals. It may look like a harmless puppet show, but as the description says “these characters wouldn’t be welcome on Sesame Street.” Best to leave the young kids at home….there’s some puppet sex which may scare even the most well adjusted adult.

Avenue Q will open at the Gielgud Theatre on the 1st June with a booking period to 26th September.

To get your Avenue Q Tickets Click Here

The daffodils are beginning to emerge from the ground, and now that it’s daylight for more than 5 hours a day, I’m not staggering around in the dark and bumping into walls, (or anything else I may have left lying about) when I drag myself out of bed in the morning. Thankfully, the Northern Hemisphere is definitely moving towards my favourite season…. Spring.

A Spring of another sort is also on the move…Spring Awakening, the Tony award winning musical is coming to the West End.

Based on an 1891 German play about adolescents on a journey of sexual awareness and discovery, Spring Awakening started as an off-Broadway production but very quickly made its way to “The Great White Way”, where it won 8 Tony awards. Earlier this year, it made its UK debut at the Lyric Hammersmith and will now have its West End Premiere when it opens at the Novello on the 21st March.

Spring Awakening Invades Beverly Hills

I have a little confession to make….I watch the new 90210. It’s a guilty pleasure, but brings me straight back the angst ridden high school days of the early ’90s…when the combination of plaid shirts and choker necklaces was cool. I realise that the topic of conversation has abruptly changed and my teenage telly tendencies seem a little out of place in this blog, but here is the connection: if you also indulge in this harmless rehash of high school fun….you will already know one of the songs from Spring Awakening! That’s right, the musical that the kids at West Beverly High performed a few episodes back was Spring Awakening, which highlighted the edgy rock song “Mamma Who Bore Me.”

So…Spring Awakening made it to Broadway, then London’s West End and was also featured on 90210…it doesn’t get any better!

Spring Awakening is just the musical to help us along into the warmer days and shorter nights….booking now until the 31st October 2009. Buy your Spring Awakening tickets here.

Drop everything you are doing because Discount Theatre has announced a Spring Sale!

With tickets available from just £12.50, there are loads of discounted shows that will ensure everyone can bag a bargain for a trip to the West End.

There’s no booking fee on some premium shows, such as 80’s dancefest, Dirty Dancing, and the fantastically cool (and very green) Wicked.

It’s the last chance to see Avenue Q and Zorro, before they disappear off into the sunset…both finish this month, so don’t delay!